Pierre & Gilles: Clair-Obscur
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-This book offers a selection of 80 of Pierre & Gilles' hand-painted photographs from prestigious collections
-Winner of the Grand Prix de Photographie of the city of Paris in 1993, their fame has grown ever since, boasting huge popularity in Asia, France and the USA Renowned for their sophisticated portraiture - a mixture of painting and photography - Pierre & Gilles magnify the ordinary and re-enchant the world by surrounding the every-day in meta-fictional pictorial environments informed by mythology, the Bible, and fairy tales. Yet their symbolic and surreal back-at-you work is resolutely set in the contemporary world with the influences of art, cinema and popular culture clearly present. This book comprises 80 works from the late 1970s to the present, drawn from international and private collections that accompanied a Spring 2017 exhibition at the Ixelles Museum in Brussels. For their numerous fans, this book is a must: there can never be too much of Pierre & Gilles. Text in English and French. Exposition from 3 Feb 2017 until 25 May 2017 at Mus e d'Ixelles, Brussels; and from 27 May 2017 until 20 August 2017 at MUMA, Le Havre, France Instagram Pierre et Gilles: @gilles_pierreetgilles
www.facebook.com/PierreetGillesPageOfficielle
-Winner of the Grand Prix de Photographie of the city of Paris in 1993, their fame has grown ever since, boasting huge popularity in Asia, France and the USA Renowned for their sophisticated portraiture - a mixture of painting and photography - Pierre & Gilles magnify the ordinary and re-enchant the world by surrounding the every-day in meta-fictional pictorial environments informed by mythology, the Bible, and fairy tales. Yet their symbolic and surreal back-at-you work is resolutely set in the contemporary world with the influences of art, cinema and popular culture clearly present. This book comprises 80 works from the late 1970s to the present, drawn from international and private collections that accompanied a Spring 2017 exhibition at the Ixelles Museum in Brussels. For their numerous fans, this book is a must: there can never be too much of Pierre & Gilles. Text in English and French. Exposition from 3 Feb 2017 until 25 May 2017 at Mus e d'Ixelles, Brussels; and from 27 May 2017 until 20 August 2017 at MUMA, Le Havre, France Instagram Pierre et Gilles: @gilles_pierreetgilles
www.facebook.com/PierreetGillesPageOfficielle
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:2390250025
ISBN13:9782390250029
Release Date:May 2017
Publisher:Lannoo Publishers
Length:304 Pages
Weight:3.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 8.5" x 10.0"
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